Hong Kong people

be respected. Like they say, “when in Rome”… Whatever is the acceptable norm in whatever part of the world you are in, you should respect and reciprocate. Again, it will be important to do your homework before traveling, or interacting with other people from around the world to know what they are comfortable with in their area of the…

construction workers, press and officials of company sponsors (Berman). So many counter fit tickets were made. 11,000 people were expected to be at opening day and half way through the day 28,000 people had come (Disneyland Opens). Before the all the people got there they had an opening day parade and a live special on ABC. The broadcast was called Dateline Disneyland. Some of the people who helped host this 90 minute special were Art Linkletter, Ronald Regan, and Bob Cummings (The Grand Opening…

The announcement creates chain reactions in Mima's life, as much as in the lives of the people near her. A number of her fans get frustrated, regarding her decision as betrayal towards them, chiefly a known stalker of her, by the name of Me-mania. In the meantime, she discovers a blog depicting details of her everyday life, which no one but…

Introduction After years of transformation, Hong Kong has become one of the developed regions. The citizens began to pursuit a better quality of life, rather than the basic living standards. The demand for a wider scope of welfare policies grew beyond the society. The provision of social welfare has therefore become an essential element in government administration. The Hong Kong Government has offered social services to different tiers of recipients. There are existing policies aiming at…

In these movies, Lee connects with the viewer by portraying himself as a common man facing a struggle, usually the oppression of a freedom that Bruce’s character embodies. Granted average viewers have never faced a mob boss, the premise of an ordinary minority man challenging the tyrannical power of foreigners made for a popular action plot. Lee would then use his martial arts skills, wits, and training in weapons, most popularly the nunchakus, to completely devastate the opposition. His role in…

because of WWI. After WWI the SSE would stay open until closing for forty nine years, starting in 1941 with Japanese soldiers occupying Shanghai. The communist revolution of 1949 would force the SSE to stay closed. Following the revolution it was the People 's Republic of China’s (PRC) attitude towards anything resembling capitalism that kept the SSE from reopening. Deng Xiaoping’s began welcoming foreign investment into China’s economy with his rise to power in 1979, by 1981 China resumed…

I was brought to the United States at a young age with my mother hoping to reunite with my father who had left China years earlier to pursue his vision of the “American dream”. Like many immigrant parents, my father recognized early on that he would have the chance to enjoy the “dream” that he worked so hard and sacrificed so much for. My parents abandoned their personal aspirations to ensure that both my brother and I would be able to live a life filled with opportunities that they could never…

Martial art films today are popular, especially in the US. Audiences love the action, and skill, and the grace that all come with the genre. Martial art films seem like just another movie genre for some people. However, martial art films holds an interesting history, going all the way back to China. One can argue that the genre of martial arts films made martial arts and the appreciation of Asian culture more apparent in U.S society. American filmmakers usually casted Asian crew members because…

I.Topic For my project, I will be examining the cultural issue, the depiction of women in an action film where they represent feminism. In film, there is not enough representation of female characters that are capable of being independent and strong all while not being sexualized. Most female character who are given the traits strong and independent often times are hyper sexualized because they are women which means there objects in male’s view. However, female characters are need of makeovers…

Australian director George Miller’s 2015 blockbuster, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, is an action filled, post-apocalyptic film. The Mad Max universe is a set in a stark, desert landscape filmed in Namibia, with an oil and water crisis, which forces humanity to revert back to a state of war and isolation. One of the main characters, Max is captured by the “war boys” who live in the Citadel run by tyrannical Immortan Joe, and eventually finds Furiosa and her rig. In the ‘Furiosa’ scene, he attempts to…